WHAT IS IMPERCEPTIVE MODALITY?

• Authors: Koseska-Toszewa Violetta , Kotsyba Natalia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Imperceptivity is understood as expressing the speaker's detachment from the content of the sentence, often through underlining the fact that the speaker was not a witness of the situation spoken about. The semantic structure of imperceptive sentences contains: 1. the semantic component 'says that'; 2. 'speaker's unawareness', which can be noted as 'the speaker does not know whether....'; 3. the necessity of 'the presence of an observer who is not identical with the speaker', whose opinion is the basis of the speech situation, while the speaker shows doubt concerning the truth of the presented content; 4. the possibility functor 'it is possible that'. Examples from Bulgarian, Polish, Ukrainian and English are presented and the peculiarities of the usage of imperceptivity in those languages are discussed.

Keywords

EN

IMPERCEPTIVE SENTENCES' SEMANTIC STRUCTURE; IMPERCEPTIVITY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Cognitive Studies
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 139-157
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Koseska-Toszewa Violetta

author

Kotsyba Natalia

• Violetta Koseska-Toszewa, Instytut Slawistyki PAN, ul. Bartoszewicza 1B m. 17, 00-337 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA053816